Mina Marmpena

PhD candidate in Applications of Personal Robotics for Interaction and Learning @ CRNS, University of Plymouth. Previously ESR @ SoftBank Robotics AI Lab

[Reuters @Reuters]

More than 5,000 university and school students protested in Athens amid anger over a devastating train crash that killed at least 57 in northern Greece. More than 350 people, including many university students, were aboard the train when it derailed https://t.co/ejZLiyy95G

[Kevin Bardosh @KevinBardosh]

How many people were pushed into hunger due to the 2020 lockdown/pandemic?

UN est. 350 million pushed into food insecurity from 2019 to 2021

207 million severely food insecure (especially in Africa) & 143 million moderately food insecurity.
https://t.co/lNvHxlRGfo

[Martin Kulldorff @MartinKulldorff]

"There was a clash between two schools of thought, authoritarian public health versus science—and science lost."
- John Ioannidis in @tabletmag
https://t.co/Qz97Y8sK33

[Vinay Prasad MD MPH @VPrasadMDMPH]

4. Big tech-- which benefits from you sitting at home---- censored speech inappropriately

Check

Epis taking money from testing companies recommend testing

Check

[Prof Francois Balloux @BallouxFrancois]

A great piece by @VPrasadMDMPH on masking children, evidence-based and balanced. Beyond its fraught topic, the underlying message, to me, is that we should 'follow the science' not as obedient members of a cult but as inquisitive, critical adults.
https://t.co/J9u9aoDxpS

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

I'd like to take a minute to talk about how reading is taught in the early years, because I think it explains the risks for K–3's created by COVID era instructional changes.

Let's look into a kindergarten to see how kids learn the code of the English language.

(thread)

[Jeffrey Flier @jflier]

We lack credible evidence for benefits of masking kids aged 2-5. Despite what American Academy of Pediatrics says. @VPrasadMDMPH explains.

[Mina Marmpena @NaiveAgent]

Great article. So helpful to explain failure of public health interventions in some places. Watching the situation in Greece, where mortality rates exploded without even being affected by the 1st wave, it makes it clear that deprived health systems are the elephant in the room.

[Wolfie Christl @WolfieChristl]

A hundreds-of-billions $ industry including the largest tech giants has been lying to the public and to people for years by claiming that all the personal data harvested from smartphones, apps and other devices would be 'anonymous'. It's not and never was:
https://t.co/HDpTyFmFfm

[Andrew Stroehlein @astroehlein]

The new restrictions that Macron has announced in France are concerning.

We need to fight the pandemic, of course, and that means protective measures will be needed. However, some of the new proposals go too far.

🧵 A thread...

https://t.co/RWF0driLvO

[Robert Dingwall 🎯🏴󠁧����󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 Rejoin @rwjdingwall]

Covid passports - the zombie policy that refuses to die no matter how many stakes get put through its heart. If you are fully vaccinated, knowing another person's vaccination status is irrelevant. If they decline protection, that is their problem not yours. RIP medical privacy

[Alasdair Munro @apsmunro]

It's important we are all cognisant of the impact of highly emotive and fear based messaging around #COVID19

It can create deep and lasting damage, and is often counter productive

This is especially the case when it comes to children

1/

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

"Invest in ventilation. The virus is airborne and good ventilation is key, especially in schools, healthcare settings, workplaces, restaurants, and bars."

@fgodlee suggests 10 urgent actions for new health secretary Sajid Javid
https://t.co/rjK3IhSmaD

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Last night I couldn't sleep, hearing bombs in my dreams, how could [israelis] be so evil, making martyrs out of children & of innocent ppl

[Zenon @kaot50]

Chess prodigy Samuel Reshevsky at age 8, defeating several chess masters at once in a simultaneous exhibition in 1920. @archilocheion

[lucy johnston @thelucyjohnston]

@toadmeister @collateralglbl
Lockdowns may INCREASE deaths -
US wide study National Bureau of Economic Research finds.
“We fail to find lockdown policies saved lives. To the contrary, we find a positive association between lockdown and excess deaths.”

https://t.co/T364Ks8BFi

[Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD @TracyBethHoeg]

Head of the Danish Pediatrics Society is now also saying we do not have enough knowledge to recommend Covid vaccination of 12-15 year olds (this source is the major scientific publication for physicians in Denmark).

[Robert Inlakesh @falasteen47]

Where's the outrage? Israeli settlers storm a Palestinian area in Jerusalem chanting "death to Arabs" & calling for ethnic cleansing.

What do Israeli police do? Protect the racists and attack Palestinians.

The equivalent is racists in the US doing this in a black neighbourhood.